Re: [Mingw-users] How can I tell whether my prog is running on cmd.exe or bash?
- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:14:42 -0500
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] How can I tell whether my prog is running on cmd.exe or bash?
Quoting Paul Leder <sa212+mingw@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> The problem is that I call 'system' and 'CreateProcess' to spawn child
> processes. These have different requirements for backslashes and quote
> characters depending on what shell they use. I specify the shell myself
> for 'CreateProcess' ('cmd /c' or '/bin/bash -c'), but I still need to
> know which shell to use. I also need to adjust the command line that I
> give to 'system'. I haven't tried the different ways of running bash. In
> development, I just use the basic console window; no tty or rxvt.
>
Check for the environment variable SHELL. If it doesn't exist use the
value of COMSPEC /c otherwise use the value of SHELL -c.
Earnie
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